US1301855A - Garment-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

J. LINHART.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed April 18, 1918. Serial No. 229,243.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH LINHART, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Elmhurst, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hooks and fasteners and especially to what is commonly known as hooks and eyes and its object is to overcome the objectionable features in the means for securing these articles to cloth or fabric by combining with them a point to penetrate the said fabric and a spur to enter the same when the two members of the fastener are to be attached to a garment. These and other details and objects of the invention are more fully described in the following specification, set forth in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the two fasteners detached but in position to be united.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the hook and eye while secured to two parts of a garment to unite them and on line 2-2 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

As shown in the drawings the eye-member 5 is preferably formed with a head 6 at at its outer end and a slot 7 provided therein for the reception of the hook 10 of the cooperating member 8, the exposed parts of the two members consisting of, otherwise, strips of sheet metal of uniform width and at their inner ends turned under as at the shoulder 9 and the under portion tapered to a point 11 which is used to penetrate and be located under the fabric of a garment.

The two members are made so that the upper parts and the points are deflected, the latter being at a distance from the hook or ye so that the point may be easily inserted in the fabric up to the shoulder 9 and the two parts pressed together so that these parts are substantially parallel. It is customary to connect the hooks and eyes with the garment at its meeting edges 12 and 13 and the two members ar reversed and attached to opposite sides of the edges as shown in Fig. 2 so that the hook is secured to the under side of the fabric while the eye is on the outer side and the parts of each member are closed and besides being held by the pin 11 a small spur 15 is provided and punched from the body parts 5 and 8 and passes through the fabric and into a perforation 16 near the upper end of the pin and the spur may be long enough to be turned back after passing through the hole so as to clamp the parts together.

This means of fastening the members assures a strong and safe connection between each member and the fabric and a connection that is quickly made.

As the parts of the fasteners are small and fragile additional strength may be given them at points where the most strain is put upon them by forming ribs 17 in the upper part or body of each member.

While the old type of hook and eye is sewed in place with considerable time and trouble and th threads are vary liable to break or be pulled off, thereby releasing the fastener, this improvement is quickly and substantially located and is able to withstand far more strain than the old style hook and eye.

It is obvious that the device may be otherwise constructed or modified without departing from th essential features above described or from the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new is:

1. In garment fasteners, the combination of cooperating parts one having a hook and the other a socket or eye, pins at the opposite ends of the hook and socket, shoulders at the upper ends of the pins, and spurs to engage the garment when the fasteners are located.

2. In garment fasteners, the combination of ribbed plates having at one end a fastening means and at the other end a shoulder, a reduced and tapered part extending from the shoulder turned substantially parallel with the plate and having a perforation, and a spur from the plate and adapted to enter the perforation.

3. In a garment fastener, the combination of a ribbed plate having fastening means at one end and a shoulder at the'other, a tapering pin extending from the shoulder with a perforation and adapted to enter a fabric as far as the shoulder, and a spur from the plate adapted to enter the perforation when 10 the plate and pin are pressed together.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 1st day of April A. D. 1918.

JOSEPH LINHART.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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